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Love, intrigue… and black paint-play: Luisa Miller at ENO

Posted on February 13, 2020 by Mark Pullinger

Verdi: Luisa Miller English National Opera, 12th February 2020 Luisa Miller hasn’t had much luck in London. Olivier Tambosi’s 2003 staging for The Royal Opera “vandalised Verdi” (The Observer), while Olivia Fuchs’ for Holland Park the following year was “badly … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Alexander Joel, Andrew Lieberman, Barbora Horáková, Christine Rice, David Junghoon Kim, Elizabeth Llewellyn, English National Opera, Eva Maria van Acker, James Creswell, Luisa Miller, Nadine Benjamin, Ólafur Sigurdarson, Soloman Howard, Verdi | Leave a comment

Mesmerising Akhnaten returns to ENO

Posted on February 12, 2019 by Mark Pullinger

Glass: Akhnaten English National Opera, 11th February 2019 For the uninitiated, it’s not exactly an evening pregnant with promise: an opera largely sung in Egyptian, Hebrew and Akkadian, without surtitles, its two hour score chugging through obsessive ostinatos of A … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Akhnaten, Angharad Lyddon, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Bruno Poet, Charlotte Beament, Chorus of English National Opera, Colin Judson, English National Opera, Glass, Hazel McBain, James Cleverton, Karen Kamensek, Katie Stevenson, Keel Watson, Kevin Pollard, Martha Jones, Orchestra of English National Opera, Phelim McDermott, Rebecca Bottone, Rosie Lomas, Tom Pye, Zachary James | Leave a comment

Hot ice and strange snow: an unseasonal return for Carsen’s bed-hopping Dream

Posted on March 2, 2018 by Mark Pullinger

Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream **** English National Opera, 1st March 2018 Heading to the Coliseum for A Midsummer Night’s Dream amid snow and ice is a disconcerting prospect – “hot ice and strange snow” indeed. Forget wild thyme blowing and substitute … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged A Midsummer Night's Dream, Alexander Soddy, Andri Björn Róbertsson, Britten, Christopher Ainslie, Clare Presland, David Webb, Eleanor Dennis, Emma Carrington, English National Opera, Graeme Danby, Jonathan Lemalu, Joshua Bloom, Matthew Durkan, Michael Levine, Miltos Yerolemou, Robert Carsen, Robert Murray, Simon Butteriss, Soraya Mafi, Timothy Robinson | Leave a comment

Billowing silk and blue hair: Phelim McDermott creates an evocative Aida for ENO

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Mark Pullinger

Verdi: Aida **** English National Opera, 28th September 2017 Instead of posters for English National Opera’s new staging of Aida depicting a steep shaft of light over a lone soprano, they could easily have screamed Akhnaten II: Return of the Tomb Raider. Phelim McDermott envisages … Continue reading →

Posted in Opera | Tagged Aida, David Webb, Eleanor Dennis, English National Opera, Gwyn Hughes Jones, Keri-Lynn Wilson, Kevin Pollard, Latonia Moore, Matthew Best, Michelle DeYoung, Musa Ngqungwana, Phelim McDermott, Robert Winslade Anderson, Tom Pye, Verdi | Leave a comment

Plums and turkeys: a musical voyage around 2016

Posted on December 28, 2016 by Mark Pullinger

Most people I know cannot wait to see the back of 2016. But in the year in which Brexit, Trump and the Grim Reaper were the big winners, I admit to having had a terrific twelve months. A whirl of … Continue reading →

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